Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

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! Salient Features of the Interstate Com
| merce Bill Passed by Both Houses OF
| Congress and Now Awaiting the Presi-
dents Signature.
] WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The Interstate
Commerce bill, as agreed upon by both
| Houses of Congress, provides that all
| charges made for any service rendered In
| the transportation of passengers or prop
erty by common carriers shall be
reasonable and just, and every
| unjust and unreasonable charge for such
service is prohibited and declared to be
unlawful
| Section two makes it unlawful for any
| common carrier to charge or receive
directly or indirectly from an persons a
| greater or less compensation for any SER
| vice rendered in the transportation of
| passengers or property than it charges,
/ or receives from any other person or per-
| sons for doing like and contemporane-
| Gus service in the transportation Of like
! kind of traffic under substantially similar
| circumstances and conditions.
Section three makes it lawful for any
! common carrier to make or give any undue
or unreasonable preference or advantage
] to any particular person, company, firm,
| corporation or locality or any particular
! description of traffic.
| Sections four and five (the long and
| short haul and pooling sections) are as
| follows:
SECTION 4. That it shall be unlawful for any
| common carrier, subject to the provisions of
this act to charge receive any greater COM
pensation in the aggregate for the transporta-
| ton of passengers or of like kind of property
under substantially similar circumstances and
conditions, for shorter than for longer dis
| lance over the same line in the same direction,
the shorter being included within the
longer distance; but this shall not
be construed as authorizing any common
carrier within the terms of this act to charge
and receive great compensation for a shorter
as for longer distance; provided however,
| that upon application to the commission ap-
| pointed under the provisions of this act, such
common carrier may, in special cases, after in
vestigation by the commission, be authorized
to charge less for longer than Tor shorter dis
tances for the transportation of passengers or
property; and the commission may from time
to time prescribe the extent to which such
designated common carrier may be relieved
from the operation of this section of this act.
SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for any
common carrier, subject to the provisions of
this act, to enter into any contract, agreement
or combination with any other common carrier
or carriers for the pooling of freights of differ
ent and competing railroads, to divide
between them the aggregate or net proceeds of
the earnings of such railroads or any proper
ton thereof; and in any case of agreement for
the pooling of freights aforesaid each day of
it's continuance shall be deemed separate
offense.
Section six requires that latter ninety days
from the passage of the act every common
carrier subject to its provisions shall have
printed and kept for public inspection
schedules showing rates, fares and
charges, and in addition to requiring the
railroads to give publicity at all of the
depots on their several lines, it gives au-
thority to the commits sion, where it is
proper and necessary, to require them
| to give publicity to their rates to other
places beyond the lines of their several
railroads. 1t also provides that the rates,
fares and charges shall not be raised ex-
cept after ten days of public notice, but
that they may be reduced without pre-
vious public notice; the notice. however,
shall be simultaneous with the reduction
itself.
Section seven makes it unlawful for
any common carrier to enter into any
com bination or agreement to prevent the
carriage of freights from being contlnu-
Gus from the place of destination.
Section eight declares that any common
carrier violating the provisions of the act
shall be liable to the person or persons in
jured thereby for the full amount of dam
ages sustained in consequence of any such
violation, together with a reasonable
counsel or attorneys fees.
The ninth section provides that persons
claiming to have been damaged by the
action of common carriers may proceed
for recovery of their damages either in
the courts of the United States or before
the commission, but not before both
tribunals.
The tenth section makes it penal of
Tense to violate any of the provisions of
this act, and puts the maximum of the
fine which may be imposed at the sum of
five thousand dollars
The seven following sections contain the
commission features of the bill. They
provide for commission to consist of five
persons, appointed by the President by,
and with the advice of the Senate, whose
term of Office shall be for six years except
for the first appointments, which are to
be for two, three, four, five and six years.
Their principal Office shall be in Washing
ton, but they may hold sessions at other
places than Washington, and single
member Of the commission may take testi-
mony any where as may be directed by
the commission. These commissioners
have salaries of 81, 500 each The commls
sion has the power to appoint
secretary with an annual salary
of $500 and has authority to
employ and fix the compensation of such
other employees as it may find necessary
to the proper performance of its duties,
subject to the approval of the Secretary
of the Interior. 1t is also provided that
nothing contained in the act shall abridge
the remedies now existing at common law
or by statute.
Section twenty-three appropriates $780,
600 for the purposes of the act for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1888.
Section twenty-four provides that the
provisions Of the sections relating to the
appointment and organization of the COM
mission shall take effect Immediately, and
that the remaining provisions of the act
shall take effect sixty days after its
passage.
The Nebraska Senatorship.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 21.-Ex-Senator A. s.
Paddock was nominated by the Republican
caucus this morning at half-past four. |
Van Wyck went into caucus at midnight, /
imposing only the one condition, that the
vote be taken viva voice. On the fifteenth
ballot the straight Republicans combined
on Paddock and he was nominated, receiv- /
ing sixty votes, which is fifteen more thai
is necessary By the caucus agreement the
Van Wyck men must vote for Paddock al |
noon to-day, insuring his election. The
result is great victory for the straight
Republicans. Paddock was in the Senate
preceding Henderson. He is the first man
the State ever returned to the Senate.